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The success of a company relies on its people. Protect your assets by conducting background checks. Taking steps to properly screen your applicants can help you increase productivity and profitability by connecting the right person with the right position. Although, there are different types of background checks, establishing a clear and concise background screening policy can ensure consistency in the screening process; avoid exceptions and favoritism and conduct checks on all applicants. Sentinel's mission is to provide the highest degree of competent, accurate and professional background screening solutions. Their best practices approach, risk management perspective and focus on informing and serving their clients, creates a culture that strives to provide excellence at every step of the screening process.

We all use electronic services increasingly often in our daily lives. To do so, we have no choice but to provide plenty of personal information for authorization, billing purposes, or as part of the terms and conditions of service providers. Dispersing all these personal information erodes our privacy and puts us at risk of abuse of this information by criminals.

Identity Mixer allows users to minimize the personal data they have to reveal in such transactions. For instance, if electronic identity (eID) cards were realized with Identity Mixer, then teenagers possessing such eID cards could log onto a teenage chat room just proving that they are indeed 12–15 years of age without revealing any other information stored on the card such as their name or address.

My Digital Shield is focused on helping the under served small business easily secure their businesses which are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Founded in 2013, MDS provides affordable, easy-to-install Security-as-a-Service based on industry-leading unified threat management. The company’s customizable cloud-based security solution offers continual protection against cyber threats and intrusion at an affordable price.

Ninja Metrics is the creator of Social Value, a precise measurement of how users influence each other and how much that influence is worth. Ninja Metrics’ key offering, The Katana Social Analytics Engine, uses predictive analytics and automated social graph analysis to help companies identify, understand, monetize and keep their most valuable, influenceable and influential customers.

With our invention of the GPU — the engine of modern visual computing — the field has expanded to encompass video games, movie production, product design, medical diagnosis and scientific research.

Today, visual computing is becoming increasingly central to how people interact with technology.

Anonabox is a cost-effective device that helps to conceal your physical location and Internet activity. It also helps to bypass censorship and allow access to sites that may be blocked. It does this with the open source software called Tor. The recently updated Mark V hardware displays a sleek, custom-built design that can easily be concealed in your pocket. This new version exhibits a special dye-cut with an embossed logo to ensure its unique manufacturing purpose. There is no software to install, no activation, & no registration. Just plug it in and start cloaking your online activity!

Fixing the mobile Internet. Together. More than 5 million people use Open Garden today. By joining Open Garden, you are joining forces to make the Internet better, faster and more reliable – for everyone, including yourself. Open Garden allows all devices (including smart phones, tablets, laptops and “wearables”) to work together and find the best connections at any time. The more people use it, the better it gets.

It's time for Bond... Ralph Bond joins Craig and Ben with computer news and special topics. For many years, Ralph was Intel's Consumer Education Director. Ralph is now with Autodesk and he is an official Computer America correspondent.

This week's Topics include: Vibrating pen makes it easier for Parkinson's patients to write, robo butterflies could be the future of flying drone factory workers, The first viable product made with 'wonder material' graphene is about to hit stores, How spiders might inspire the 3D-Printed Industrial Revolution, Expanding Wheels Cover Every Type of Terrain, California biohackers create night vision eye drops, YouTube Testing 60 FPS 4K Videos and so much more!